"Drakes pretend to be dragons, until the dragons show up" - flavor text from a MtG card.
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National Geographic: The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada
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"Drakes pretend to be dragons, until the dragons show up" - flavor text from a MtG card.
victreeb3l
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Incredible find. The details are exquisite!
victreeb3l
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Arent they all dragons? I didnt know there was a difference between dragons and drakes and wyverns.
The Artisan
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In general, dragons are the four-legged dinosaurian monsters with wings, drakes are smaller or younger dragons (or sometimes just large lizards with draconian characteristics), and wyverns have two legs and two wings which may double as forelimbs. Wyverns are obscure but do have a distinct definition due to their common usage in heraldry. As an example, in the book of The Hobbit, Smaug is a dragon (four legs, two wings). In the terrible movies, he is a wyvern (two legs, two wings).
Fuck, that's an amazing fossil. Up there with the greats for sure.
Not all dinosaurs have/had feathers.
Not all dinosaurs have/had feathers.
they originated before the feather trait appeared and remained on a different genetic line.
The flood they're referring to is Noah's bro. God did this because he already saved two of this species.
Khaleesi doesn't have dragons, she has wyverns?
"I am the mother of wyverns!"
Yeah fuck that. A giant reptile that shoots out fire and flies, is a dragon. I don't care if it has 4 legs or two lol. Mother of wyverns...hahaha.
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Also hard scales kinda make feathers pointless unlike other dinosaurs with no "hard scales"
dragons = four limbs + 2 wings
drakes = four limbs
wyverns = two limbs + 2 wings (with the wings acting like the missing limbs)
wyrms = snake-like
Better than that old Final Fantasy translation
"Y Burn"
dragons = four limbs + 2 wings
drakes = four limbs
wyverns = two limbs + 2 wings (with the wings acting like the missing limbs)
wyrms = snake-like
Better than that old Final Fantasy translation
"Y Burn"
Muppet of a Man
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Satan working overtime.
JonnyDBrit
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On the dragon talk, it's just a distinction to qualify particular aesthetic traits. Parallel use in heraldry drove up a desire to distinguish the two, but fantasy works in particular pushed the idea of a difference by introducing differing tiers and types of dragons, with wyverns usually coming out as the lesser beasts.
In contrast, the oldest depictions of Saint George fighting a dragon? More resemble the depiction of a wyvern. While the ancient greeks generally just imagined dragons as especially big lizards and snakes, though one variant they believed to exist in Ethiopia was said to have wings and hunted elephants.
So yeah, if anyone discovered shit like this several thousand years ago, I think they'd have just screamed whatever their equivalent for the concept of 'dragon!' was. Does that make such discoveries the only or more probable cause for thinking dragons existed? Not really; for the western conception at least, bear in mind that the crocodile existed but wasn't really a thing in Europe. Not hard to add fire and wings to spice up the iconography from there.
Though, I do wanna see someone use this as inspiration for a dragon design...
In contrast, the oldest depictions of Saint George fighting a dragon? More resemble the depiction of a wyvern. While the ancient greeks generally just imagined dragons as especially big lizards and snakes, though one variant they believed to exist in Ethiopia was said to have wings and hunted elephants.
So yeah, if anyone discovered shit like this several thousand years ago, I think they'd have just screamed whatever their equivalent for the concept of 'dragon!' was. Does that make such discoveries the only or more probable cause for thinking dragons existed? Not really; for the western conception at least, bear in mind that the crocodile existed but wasn't really a thing in Europe. Not hard to add fire and wings to spice up the iconography from there.
Though, I do wanna see someone use this as inspiration for a dragon design...